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yellow flowers on red stems ; oppositifolia, deep rose, 

 and variety major ; Paulinae, yellow ; Petrarchi, round 

 white flowers, foliage in rosettes ; pedatifida, white 

 flowers, leaves in green rosettes ; Rocheliana, white, 

 tufty ; sancta, deep yellow, a summer bloomer ; scardica 

 obtusa, white, leaves in tufty cushions, and umbrosa, 

 with its variegated form. One of the best of the lingulata 

 or Megasea section, which are strong growers with suc- 

 culent foliage, is Stracheyi alba (syn. afghanica), which 

 produces splendid trusses of pure white bloom. Cordi- 

 folia, rose, and its variety purpurea, purple, are good. 

 A collection of Saxifrages comprising most of the above 

 will be fairly representative of this large and beautiful 

 genus. 



SEDUM (STONECROP). This genus is not remarkable 

 for the beauty of its members, and were it not that they 

 thrive under conditions which few other plants would 

 tolerate they might be neglected. As it is, they are 

 accepted as important plants. It can be said of few 

 plants of any merit that they may be planted on a hot, 

 dry bank of poor soil in spring with the confidence of their 

 thriving even if a parching summer follows. This the 

 Sedums will do, spreading into broad, dense masses. 

 Novelties do not come rapidly, and having acknowledged 

 the value of the genus, and indicated a use for it, we may 

 leave it with the mention of a few of the best kinds, 

 namely, acre and its varieties, of which aureum, with a 

 yellow tinge on the foliage, is the most popular ; album, 

 white-flowered, and its variety brevifolium ; cseruleum, 

 blue ; Ewersii, pink, and its variety Turkestanicum, 

 red ; glaucum, white ; hybridum, yellow ; Japonicum, 

 yellow, and its variegated form ; Kamtschaticum, yellow, 

 and its variegated form ; lydium, pink ; Middendorffi- 



